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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is hands-down superior at detecting security threats delivered by malicious websites, according to testing company NSS Labs.

Romanian law enforcement on Friday arrested more than 100 people alleged to be involved in a multi-million dollar US-Romanian fraud network.

The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is further entrenched as the key international legal instrument for tackling online crime following the third annual Quintet meeting of Attorneys-General in Sydney this week.

Many users continue to make unsafe transactions over the web -- even if they're aware of the danger of such transactions, a new survey from Symantec suggests.

After last week's report from the German government regarding PDF-related security vulnerabilities in MobileSafari, Apple has stepped up: The company on Friday released updates for all iOS devices that fix the problem. The updates are recommended for all users of Apple's mobile devices.

As computational power rises exponentially, not linearly, so does the rate of change - and that means the next 10 years should pack in far more technological change than the last 10.

In its new cyberdefense strategy, the Pentagon is drawing on lessons about agility, lifecycle management and supply-chain protection that have already been learned by private corporations.

Google has started to move e-mail security features from its Postini service directly into its Google Apps collaboration and communication suite.

The Department of Defense says it was hit by a cyberattack by a "foreign intelligence service" that managed to pilfer 24,000 sensitive files.The attack, which occurred in March, was perpetrated by an unnamed "nation state," according to Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III. Lynn who disclosed the breach during a speech Thursday outlining the Pentagon's new cyber strategy for dealing with cyber-breaches.

Romanian law enforcement officials on Thursday executed 117 searches targeting more than 100 people in an ongoing effort with the U.S. Department of Justice to break up a large Internet auction fraud scheme, the DOJ said.

A security consultant has notified Skype of a cross-site scripting flaw that could be used to change the password on someone's account, according to details posted online.

A banking Trojan that has plagued Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Phone users has now made its way to Android devices.

Discourage data leaks, standardize and optimize file transfer--that's the ambition of Managed File Transfer (MFT) products. Here, experts offer practical advice on using these tools.

Data in transit. Those three words are at the heart of business in the 21st century and the rise the of the secure managed file transfer (MFT) industry. Companies function by sending, receiving and sharing information, often in very large files, and often in huge numbers of files in batch transactions. Files have to move quickly, reliably and securely.

Sony's president of network entertainment must look at the world through rose-colored glasses because he describes the hacking that took down the PlayStation Network as "a great learning experience."

US talkshow host Jay Leno, singer Madonna, actress Cameron Diaz and President Barack Obama share an unpleasant secret their publicists are powerless to do anything about.

Russia and the U.S. are working to reduce chances for a cybersecurity incident that could damage the countries' relationship, according to the top cybersecurity adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Three men behind in a phishing gang police believe stole over £4 million ($6.3 million) from credit cards and online bank accounts in the UK and Ireland have been sentenced to a total of 13.5 years in jail.

Agricultural technology firm Monsanto became the latest target of hacktivists this week, when hackers donning the mantle of the distributed protest group Anonymous claimed that it had penetrated the firm's network and leaked personal information on 2,500 of the company's employees.

Most users of Adobe's hugely popular PDF Reader are content to use out-of-date and potentially insecure versions of the program, an analysis by antivirus company Avast Software has revealed.